Run Benny Run!

About the Book

Run Benny Run is written as a sequel to the original story of Benny the bean seed and Iris the flower bulb (Save the Seeds). Our original seed and bulb buddies along with their other garden pals continue to teach us about hope and humility as Christians. In an ever-changing and often self-centered world, it is not only important for us to learn “how” to be saved, but also “why” we have been saved. From his experiences in the small little vegetable garden one summer, Benny learns about free will. He discovers that not only was he a special seed that was saved to do great things; these wonderful things were not for his own pleasure and enjoyment. Instead he was saved to bring glory and honor to God. He discovered that having personal freedoms and free-will to make choices can be a wonderful gift as long as his choices in life were carefully and pray fully guided by the Master Bean Maker.

About the Author

Kathy Bingham Powell is both humbled and excited to present the publication of her second book about her original garden friends, Benny the bean seed and Iris the flower seed, and to introduce some of their other garden pals. She has carefully combined her two great loves of gardening and reading picture books to continue her mother's original ministry of "saving the seeds". She firmly believes that both children and adults can be ministered to through lessons from the garden and carefully chosen picture books. She is inspired by Bibical scripture, particularly the Parable of the Sower, and believes that seeds can be planted in both her literary garden as well as her vegetable and flower gardens. The seeds of her own peronal fatih are preserved through both her private collection of picture books and through her replanting of "saved seeds" from last year's vegetable garden. She lives a simple life as a preshool teacher, loving wife of over thirty years, and the mother of three grown chldren. She devotes her winter to being in the classroom with two-four year olds and spending time in her literary "Tiny Seeds Library" at home. She donates a part of her summertime to helping young children grow and share vegetables and flowers from their very own Kinder Garden- a part of the church community garden. Planting "saved" seeds from the garden and reading and sharing from this personal collection of picture books is her way of preserving her own childhood faith and spreading God's love into the world.